Jeff Vandermeer Quotes
I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
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There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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For me, family has always come first.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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The reason that he knew so much about everything, I found, was that wherever he went he got right in with the people.
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I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.
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My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August.
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My everyday go-to style is a lot more casual. I like to wear suits to games, but during the day, going to the gym, I'm in my workout gear. Then if I'm going to lunch meetings, I like to keep it somewhat casual - short-sleeved button-ups, jeans, and sneakers.
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I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.
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I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.
